WoRMS taxon details
Abudefduf saxatilis (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 159288
AphiaID: 159288
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Pomacentridae (Family) > Pomacentrinae (Subfamily) > Abudefduf (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Abudefduf Forskål, 1775 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Abudefduf ascensionis Fowler, 1919 Abudefduf marginatus (Bloch, 1787) Abudefduf saxiatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling) Abudefduf sexatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling) Apogon quinquevittatus Blyth, 1858 Chaetodon marginatus Bloch, 1787 Chaetodon mauritii Bloch, 1787 Chaetodon sargoides Lacepède, 1802 Chaetodon saxatilis Linnaeus, 1758 Glyphidodon saxatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) Glyphisodon biniar Montrouzier, 1857 Glyphisodon moucharra Lacepède, 1802 Glyphisodon saxatilis | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] basis of record: Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [details] basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Smith, J.L.B. (1960). Coral Fishes of the Family Pomacentridae from the Western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Ichthyological Bulletin No. 19: 317-349 [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Djibouti [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] North West Atlantic [details] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles [details] South Africa (country) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Orbitacolax analogus Vervoort, 1969 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Holobomolochus glyphisodontis (Krøyer, 1863) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (76 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (97 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (65 nucleotides; 55 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Usually found in shallow waters to around 15 meters, juveniles are common in tide pools while adults school over shallow reeftops. Adults frequently form large feeding aggregations of up to several hundred individuals. Food items include algae, small crustaceans and fish, and various invertebrate larvae. Adult males adopt a bluish ground colour when guarding eggs. Attracted to divers who feed fish. Generally common (Ref. 9710). [details] Diet: Food items include algae, small crustaceans and fish, and various invertebrate larvae [details] Distribution: Atlantic Ocean: 40.9°N to Uruguay in the western Atlantic, abundant on Caribbean reefs; around islands of the mid-Atlantic, Cape Verde, and along the tropical coast of western Africa south to Angola [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] Habitat: Adults frequently form large feeding aggregations of up to several hundred individuals. [details] Importance: Social- Commercial, aquariumfish [details] Remark: Slight differenced from the Atlantic to the Indo-Pacific have led some authors to regard the Indo-Pacific form as a distinct species, A. vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard) Randall (1992). [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159288 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Abudefduf saxatilis (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159288 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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